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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93924	A paraphrasticall explication of the prophecie of Habakkuk, which is a prophecie that may supply us with fit matter of meditation for these times.	Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5718; Thomason E314_30; ESTC R200510	27,751	36

that barbarous People guilty of so many so grosse sinnes as they are CAP. II. 1. AFter these sad and scrupulous Queries and Objections which presented themselves unto me I could doe no other then as a Prophet a Watch-man a seer of Israell betake my selfe to my Watch-tower and with all Reverence and Patience expect what the Divine Oracle would discover unto me and make me able to returne to others as the best solution of those Doubts and a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 argumentum vel argumentatio ut Iob. 23.1 nostra Transl rectè habet Interrogatories of my former Discourse 2. And such did the Solution prove to be that others have as much reason to observe it as I have Therefore was I commanded by God himselfe so clearly to deliver and explain the Vision which I shall now relate that it might be given down to Posterity as a thing written in faire and Capitall Letters so that he that runnes might read it and see b Or in tables of some durable substance ut antiquitus in buxo cedro c. in it as in a little Mappe or Table a draught of those waies of God's Divine Wisdome and Iustice in the ordering and disposing of things below farre beyond thereach of our weake judgement and apprehension 3. And beyond the little compasse of our time too for it lookes c Heb. in tempus determinatum farther then our short and evill daies Yet as they that live to see it accomplished will account the hardest part of it to be slipt over as in a dreame so we that by the eye of Faith can look forward and fix our thoughts upon that end which will prove the end of our Miserte and the end of our Enemies Prosperity may see it posting on as all our Times doe with such speed d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in notione sufflandi as if it were carried upon the wings of the winde For all which speed nothing that is foretold of it will faile or come short of the truth Therefore let no seeming delay take off our expectation and hope in Gods Promises which will come at last and e Hebr. veniendo veniet cannot come stowly to a Heart that is ready and prepared for it and wants not that solace wherewith it may in the mean while support it selfe 4. But that heavie faint distrustfull soule that f Ita exponitur hic locus Hebr. 10.38 ubr in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apparet vestigium antiq lect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qui autem malūt adhae●●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apte possunt exponere de superbiâ confidentiâ in propriis viribus quae Nebuchad Chaldoeos ad interitum produxit cùm fides interim in deum pros Israelitas vivos conservaret pristinae etiam Paci restitueret drawes back with feares and sad apprehensions of danger faster then affiance in divine promises can incite it forward that soule is not yet in the right posture wherein it should be Nay it wants that which is the very life of a Soule that is in the right indeed For it is by a g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fidem veritatem constantiam complectitur ex naturâ vocis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 true constant Faith that the righteous 〈…〉 hold upon Life It is his Faith and Confidence in the truth of Gods word and Promise which makes him h Quod refertur ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 10.38 accopted in the sight of God and is a good meanes both to keep him a constant fervant of God in all Piety and Obedience which prepares him the more for the wayes of his present deliverly and to fornish him with a modest security of happinesse hereafter For he that is made righteous or i Sic Rom. 1.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 construitur cum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idem est quod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut apparet ex scopo mente totius Epist ad Romanos justified by Faith shall live for ever 5. Now he that labours for such a Faith is a fit Auditor for such a Prophecie as this which after this Preface I will now proceed to declare that you may with mee in this Vision and divine speculation from my Propheticall Watch-tower plainly foresee what our common enemie the Chaldaean will prove after all the insolencies and presumptions upon his own fortunate successes and our sadde afflictions You might see him then k This may allude to proud Baltassar and his Chaldeans that in a drunken fit made bold with the sacred Vessells of the Temple and were that night showed the uncertain estate of humane greatnesse falling then from their former height of glory command to little lesse then slavery under the Medes and Persians drunk with wine and drunk with Pride And as a drunken man l Our English Translation expresseth all very well in one word he shall not indure i. he shall not hould out in that condition not continue in that prosperity he was The hebrew signifies properly he shall have no sure mansion he shall be like one turned out of his house to seek his fortune as we use to say And this word is well put into this Ital by Diod Non dimorerà in casâ suâ so shall he afterward be tottering in his fortunes various and inconsistent to himselfe and to what he was every way reeling and wavering and tumbled about from his highest and most prosperous estate to worse and worse It was his own covetous and ambitious desire that set him on worke and thrust him on forward till he got up at last to that high pitch of Honour and abundance of Wealth from which he must beginne his heavier ruine and downefall For the longing of his greedie Soule in his filthie Avarice was inlarged like Hell as if he would have the Divell and all and in his Malice and cruelty he gaped after our destruction like Death the Grave that will never be satisfied The Addition of whole Nations and severall sorts of People either slaine by his sword or subdued and united to his former too vast Empire could not worke so much upon him as to make him think that he had enough either of their blood or of their wealth 6. Will you see after all this how he shall be exposed to the scorn and derision of them whom he hath rifled and plundered and abused at his own pleasure The time is comming on apace when they shall take up a gibing taunt and Tarable against him and say Woe to him that had too much of his owne and yet would never leave scraping and heaping more and more together out of others little store How long will he thus toyle and bustle in the World to take from them And how little a while shall he live to enjoy it His heapes of gold and silver which he